Business 10, workers 0

Well, Michigan is another right-to-work state.  They can now join Texas in low wages, no health insurance, and working three part-time jobs to just survive.  Right-to-work benefits only businesses and the rank and file employees are too stupid to see it.  I worked in a union shop all my working career.  We did not force anyone to join.  However, those deadbeats who chose not to join the union gleefully took the pay raises, paid holidays, paid sick leave, great health insurance and protection from being fired.  They took them and bragged about not paying union dues.  At the rate we are going, we will well and truly be a third world country within a decade.  I find it appalling that we are in this mess.  No one seems to remember the history of the unions and that a lot of people died for the workers right to organize.  Companies hired killers to knock off those who were organizing.  And all my life in the South, I have seen people accept whatever a business would pay them and refuse to join a union.  Down here, there is a hatred of unions.  This hatred is founded on what businesses and politicians have fed the people.  And like sheep to slaughter, they swollow it and say "Thank you.  You have my best interests in mind."  Not.  The stupidity of people never cease to amaze me.  I have worked as a union member and as a manager.  That contract is your play book.  Play by that contract and you have no problem with discipline, firing an employee if necessary.  The problem with the managers is that they did not want to play by the rules.  They wanted to make up their own rules and scream foul when they were called on it.  I have disciplined many employees and those disciplines stuck because I followed the contract.  But the working class would rather work for pennies.  They refuse to realize that if businesses could get away with it they would pay them nothing. 

Unions gave the workers a minimum wage, 40 hour work week, sick leave, vacation time, family leave, safe working conditions, overtime.  American workers better wake up and smell the stink.